Living Room

I thought I'd post some photos of the interior of my house. This will give me a place to document our thought process as we make plans to do some remodeling to our house. First a bit of background.

We've lived in this house since December of 1995. The home was built by a local man and his sons who are all firefighters but build homes as a sideline. They do excellent work though I do take issue with some of the materials they chose to use (such as bottom of the barrel medicine cabinets, sliding doors in the sun room, exterior instead of interior French doors between dining area and sun room, a window framed for the outside of a house over the stove looking into the sun room to name a few things)

No one lived in this house before us. (not exactly true the builder and his wife lived here for 3 weeks while waiting on their new place to become available) So when we moved in everything was brand new. The walls were all white and everything else was also completely neutral in color.

We haven't had to do a lot since we've lived here. We did paint both bathrooms (we made over the upstairs bath and it's documented in this blog elsewhere), we painted the master bedroom, Courtney's bedroom and Jason's old room that Kylie uses. We put wallpaper up in the loft area. We painted the downstairs family room and had it carpeted. We started work on the room above the garage and had it carpeted as well. It still has some work to be done in there.

We also painted the living room, kitchen and dining area and I sponge painted the walls. I like it because it gives the walls a little something without being overwhelming. We also put up border in the dining area/kitchen. As you will be able to see in the photos below these 3 "rooms" are all open to one another so whatever you do to one effects the others. When we do this remodel it is going to be necessary to repaint the entire area as well the newly expanded kitchen/dining area. I have NO real idea what color scheme I want to use...nothing. This is going to be a real adventure.

Now on to the photos: as always, you can click on the photos to enlarge them.
This is a view of the living room taken last night after we got the Christmas tree out. The furniture placement isn't where things usually are, not that it matters as we're getting new furniture in a few weeks.
Another view that shows how the living room is open to the dining room (or area as it's not really a room of it's own)This shows a bit more of the dining area. The door you see there is the door to the mud room, laundry room and garage. That door will be staying in that location.This is another view of the how the living room and dining area are positioned and to the right you can see the opening above the sink in the kitchen.